Richard Hurowitz
Richard Hurowitz is a writer, Chief Executive Officer of the investment firm Octavian and Company LLC, and the publisher of The Octavian Report, a quarterly magazine of ideas covering topics such as foreign affairs, economics, and culture. His book In the Garden of the Righteous, published by HarperCollins in 2023 describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared humanity.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
1:00- 2:00pm
Global Classroom at the SUNY Global Center
115 East 55th Street
New York City
Also available on Zoom
About the Topic
Garden of the Righteous is Mr. Hurowitz’s latest book about ten stories of rescue, including the stories of circus ringmaster Adolf Althoff and his wife Maria, the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali, the Polish social worker Irena Sendler, and the Japanese spy Chinue Sugihara. During WWII, they risked their lives and livelihoods to save Jewish people from persecution. In today’s increasingly violent world where personal and national insecurity are at an all-time high, empathy and humanity are more important than ever. We will hear about extraordinary acts of courage and imagine our own actions in the face of intense conflicts.
About the Speaker
Richard Hurowitz is a writer, investor and the publisher of the Octavian Report. His latest book, In the Garden of the Righteous (Harper, 2023), chronicles extraordinary acts of courage. In another book (Public Affairs, 2018): Fight for Liberty: Defending Democracy in the Age of Trump, Mr. Hurowitz brings together essays from respected writers and thinkers, including Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Max Boot, Bret Stephens, Richard North Patterson, Ted Koppel, Natan Sharansky who make the “urgent” case for liberal democracy. Mr. Hurowitz has served on the boards of several international companies, worked in hedge fund investment and was the founder and chief investment officer of Octavian Advisors, an international special situations and distressed investment fund. Mr. Hurowitz’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, The Times (London), the Los Angeles Times, TIME, History Today, and the Jerusalem Post. He received his BA in History from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the editor-in-chief of the Columbia/VLA Journal of Law & the Arts.
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